Some of Barack Obama's Past History on Guns. (by RG)
Barack Obama served as director of the Joyce Foundation board (1994-2001).
While serving as director of the Joyce Foundation board, Barack Obama gave millions of dollars to gun control organizations like the Council Against Handguns and the Violence Policy Center.
(Between 1994 and 2001, the Joyce Foundation gave 18.6 million to about 80 anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment projects, including 1.5 million to the Violence Policy Center.)
The Joyce Foundation is closely linked to the “Soros Open Society Institute,” which advocates a worldwide ban on civilian firearm ownership.
Barack Obama in 1996
In September of 1996, as a candidate for the Illinois State Senate, Barack Barack Obama completed a candidate questionnaire.
He stated on that questionnaire that: "...opposes electronic eavesdropping, opposes capital punishment, opposes mandatory sentencing guidelines, opposes the manufacture, sale, and possession of all handguns, and supports banning assault weapons."
Barack Obama as State Senator in 1999.
Barack Obama votes against a bill that specifically allows homeowners the right to use a gun in self-defense during a home invasion.
The Illinois Governor vetoes the bill; Barack Obama votes to uphold the veto.
Barack Obama proposes increasing Illinois firearm and ammunition excise taxes by 500 percent. (A 55 tax on a 500 rifle would increase to 330.) The tax would thus change from a fee to fund wildlife preservation programs into a gun-punishing penalty.
Barack Obama as State Senator in 2002-2003.
Barack Obama votes for a bill in the Illinois Senate that would ban most hunting rifles, shotguns, and target rifles.
The bill would also authorize the Illinois State Police to raid homes and forcibly confiscate banned guns.
Barack Obama also votes for a bill that would shut down all Illinois firearm manufacturing businesses (Springfield Armory, Armalite, Rock River Arms, and Les Baer).
Barack Obama votes for a bill (S 2579) prohibiting Illinois citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month.
Barack Obama votes for a bill that bans most single-shot and double-barreled shotguns as “semi-automatic assault weapons” (even though they are not semi-automatic), along with hundreds of models of rifles and handguns. (Had the bill had passed, Illinois residents would have had 90 days to turn their guns in or face felony charges.)
Barack Obama votes to make a criminal out of a homeowner who uses a gun in his own defense in his own home.
It is interesting that Barack Barack Obama usually voted present to hide his Liberal views, he always voted on Gun Control laws.
Barack Obama as State Senator in 2004.
Obama says he is "…consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry," and that he would back "federal legislation that would ban citizens from carrying weapons, except for law enforcement."
In March, 2004, Obama votes to allow prosecution of citizens how use guns for self-defense in their own homes (SB 2165).
Obama proposes legislation prohibiting gun stores from operating within five miles of a school or a park; inasmuch as most communities have schools and parks scattered widely throughout their areas, the legislation would effectively ban gun stores.
Barack Obama in 2008 as POTUS candidate.
In April of 2008, Obama remarks that residents of small-town America, because of lost jobs, “…get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or (become) anti-immigrant.” His imprudent comment, full of patronizing condescension and contempt, draws severe criticism from gun-owners and church-goers.
Barack Obama's Attorney General.
Eric Holder is antagonistic toward the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and had supported the Washington, D.C. ban on all hand-guns, even for self-defense in the home.
(That law was later found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.)
Holder supports federal licensing of all handguns, three-day waiting periods, one gun per month purchase limits, national gun registration, and strict limits on gun shows that would effectively shut them down.
Barack Obama - March 2011.
On March 30, the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Jim Brady, who sustained a debilitating head wound in the attack, and his wife, Sarah, came to Capitol Hill to push for a ban on the controversial "large magazines." Brady, for whom the law requiring background checks on handgun purchasers is named, then met with White House press secretary Jay Carney. During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, "to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda," she said.
"I just want you to know that we are working on it," Brady recalled the president telling them. "We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."
Barack Obama - July, 11 2011.
The Barack Obama Administration on Monday July 11, 2011, issued NEW regulations that circumvented Congress, requiring legal Gun Shop's to report multiple 'Long Gun' rifle sales in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas to the Federal Government.
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